The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-06-03

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elected United States senatoe.
Samuel johnson, the colored man convicted
Of the murder Of John eharpless, at Ches-
ter, Penn, will be hanged August 3.
A violent wind and hail storm pre-.
vailed Ill over the eastern portion Of Ala
bama Tueeday afternoon, doing considerable
damage.
A natural gss company has been organised
at Blunt, Dakota, with . capital Of $4,000.
The development Of natural gas wells will be
at once begun.
Currans agricultural warehouse and Cla1k's
livery stable at Alexandria, Dakota, were
burned Wednesday morning. Loss, $1,000;
insurance, $4,000.
The supreme court OF Illinois delivered an
opinion Affirming the title Of the Pullman
Palace Car company to the land on which the
town OF Pullman IL situated.
Miss Blanche, the youngest sister Of C. q.
Monger, editor Of the Anamosa Journal, In
som unghown manner got her clothing aire
and the physician says she can live but .
short time.
Commodore William F. Davidson, an old.
Mississippi river steamboatman, died at 81.
Paul Thursday evening. He leaves = wife
and two children and an estate worth { l,O0O,-
0CO.
! Fred H. Brooks, youngest son Of the late F.
W. Brooks, president Of the National State
bank, at Burlington, Ia, committed suicide
Thursday evening by shooting himself through
the heart.
A special from Glyndon, MIMI, says the
elevator at Hawley burned Thursday morning
with $4,000 bushels of wheat. Loss, $25, 600;
insurance not stated. Atramp is suspected
Of the work.
The directors Of the Omaha and Council
Bluffs Bridge company awarded q contract
Saturday for q new bridge across the Missouri
to the Edgemore Bridge company, of VIII
mington, Del, for t3s5, COO.
John Fall and wife of Jefferson township
near Oskaloosa, lows, were murdered Wednes.
day night with an axe and the house then
burned. signso Of . severe struggle are appar-
cnt. No clue to the perpetrators.
Wednesday morning two Santa Fe trains
colllded near Wichita, Kan, and before they
could get flagmen out two extras, one from
each direction, piled into the wreck. The de.
tails regarding the wreck are meager.
A special from Morris, ILL.,, says: Schwartz
and Watt, the Rock Island train robbers,
were to-day sentenced to imprisonment for
life. Leave was granted the prisoners to file
q bill OF exceptions by August %, 1887.
A quarantine officer at San FrancMco Tues.
day afternoon discovered q fresh Gaze of
smallpox on the steamer Gaelic. The devel-
opment Of this case will prevent the departure
of 1;10O Chinese In transit at least two weeks.
The forty-fourth annual meeting of the
Congregational association of Illinois, con-
vened Tuesday morning, at Springfield, all
the Congregational churches in the state
being represented by their pastors and lay
delegates.
The board Of health Of Key West has Off
clally announced the appearance of q case OF
yellow fever. The patient lie q carpenter who
has been here since last December. The city
isfull of strangers. An early exodus is OK.
pectcd.
In a heavy thunder storm north OF Aber.
deem Saturday night Peter Nelson and Chas.
Curley, Of James Coopcr's grading camp on
the Aberdeen, Bismarck aud Northwestern
foad, were instantly killed. Nelson's homc
is between Westport and Leola; Curlcy's at
Long Lake.
Instructions were received at army head.
quarters at Omaha Saturday from Washing.
ton to send a troop of cavalry from Fort
Robinson to Cheyenne to enforce the removal
of fences from public lands. The troops will
protect the men from the interference of COW.
boys.
William Patterson, colored, indicted for the
murder a month ago of Jennie Bowman at
Louisville, was on Friday sentenced t. hang
Juiy I. The jury was out only eleven min.
utes and returned u verdict Of guilty and
fixing the penalty at death.
A general cattle roundup is operating in
the vicinity Of Quintah, Texas, aud the cattle
men report a more successful gather on cattle
this spring and the cattle are in better con.
dition, and the calf crop is considerably heav-
Ter than for several years past.
Henry c Reese, of Huron, Oak, was found
in a box car at Salem Tuesday morning
crushed to death by lumber, with which the
car Was loaded. He left Huron Monday in
search of work, and has o wife and six chill
drcn in almost destitute circumstances.
The annual meeting of the State Homeo.
pathic Medical association began at Des
Moines, Iowa, Tuesday afternoon. An ad.
dress Of welcome was delivered by Gov. Lar.
rabee, to which a response was made by DIR.
Dickinson, OF Des Moines, president of the
association.
The recent rains throughout the north.
west have extingutshed most of the forest
fires which have been raging in Wisconsin
and upper Michigan with serious destruction.
Portions of the crops, which have been suffer.
ing severely from the effects of the drouth,
have been greatly benefited.
Bayless q. Peadro, an inmate of the insane
asylum at Anna, Illinois, was killed by one Of
the hospital attendants. Peadro was not vio-
lently insane. The jury returned q verdict
that he came TO his death from wounds In.
hicted by the attendant. Two of his ribs
were broken and his skull was fractured.
A French laborer named Lasnoureaux en-.
tered the Central station at Chicago on Fri.
day and announced lie was the murderer of
Officer Girard, the Kankakee policeman re.
Gently murdered in that town. He said his
wife was in the habit Of meeting Girard in
criminal relations. and lie had followed her
and saw her meet the officer. He thereupon
shot and killed Girsrd and fed To Chicago